Relive the Best Parts of Going Back to School Without the Actual Boring School Part

“Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want,” Ryan Gosling told Esquire magazine in a 2011 interview. He makes a good point. Eating candy at your every whim is one really fantastic thing about adulthood. The other major one is that late August no longer signals an internal panic attack at the thought of having to return to school. See, as adults, we’re able to do the fun stuff without the boring part, which is why we shouldn’t give up on back-to-school shopping or picking out the perfect binder—one whose color really represents “who we are” and our goal of staying organized this year. We can still do that as sensible quasi-adults living in Brooklyn…